1 ¶ There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye swell and have not rather sorrowed, that he which hath done this deed might be put from among you. 3 For I verily as absent in body, even so present in spirit, have determined already (as though I were present) of him that hath done this deed, 4 in the name of our Lord Iesu Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of the Lord Iesus Christ, 5 to deliver him unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Iesus. 6 ¶ Your rejoicing is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven soureth the whole lump of dough? 7 Purge therefore the old leaven, that ye may be new dough as ye are sweet bread. For Christ our ester lamb is offered up for us. 8 Therefore let us keep holyday, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of maliciousness and wickedness but with the sweet bread of pureness and truth. 9 ¶ I wrote unto you in the pistel that ye should not company with fornicators. 10 And I meant not at all of the fornicators of this world, either of the covetous, or of extortioners, either of idolaters: for then must ye needs have gone out of the world: 11 but now I have written unto you that ye company not together. If any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a worshipper of images, either a railer, either a drunkard, or an extortioner: with him that is such see ye eat not. 12 For what have I to do to judge them which are without? Do ye not judge them that are within? 13 Them that are without, god shall judge. Put away from among you that evil person. |